Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Part I Chapter One We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.

Gustave Flaubert

CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

Gustave Flaubert

CHAPTER I THE FEAST It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar.

Gustave Flaubert

THEN SHE SEIZED HIM BY THE EARS AND KISSED HIM SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION CHAPTER I. A Promising Pupil.

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...